Changing my spotshttp://norman.walsh.name/2008/01/20/leopard1192008-01-20T12:48:34-05:00$Date$NormanWalsh2008Norman WalshWell, changing my stripes into spots, I suppose. Notes on the
upgrade from Mac OS X “Tiger” to “Leopard”.In much the same spirit as
my last rebuild, here
are some notes on the transition to “Leopard”.There are several ways to upgrade the OS, but the only one I
trust is the one where you reformat the drive and start over. It'll
have to be done eventually, that's just the nature of things, so I
think it's better just to start that way.Make backups. I didn't really need to say that, did I?Boot the DVD and install the OS.Install extra packages off the DVD: X
Code, X11, etc. It seemed
straightforward this time.
Run Software Update. Repeat until
it says it's done.Restore the backup data.If, like me, you use /home,
you will be very confused until you
figure out
that Leopard has some funky auto mount setup that makes
/home unusable.You can fix this by commenting out the appropriate line in
/etc/auto_master.Merge your old home directory
into the new one that the installer created. (In
/Users, not
/home, previous discussion not
withstanding. I use
/home for staging web content
because that is where my home directory is located
on the web hosting server.)Leopard comes with Python 2.5.1, I'm happy with that. Except that
Berkeley DB doesn't seem to work. Luckily,
it can be fixed.
Install MacPorts. Use
MacPorts to install wget, msmtp
(for sending mail, at least from my custom Emacs rig),
subversion, and gnupg.
For some reason, the MacPorts version of mercurial
won't
build. I got a
binary instead.Install PyXML (yes, I know there are
better
things, but I haz lagazee…)Inexplicably, it didn't work. Or, rather, it worked after I
set the PY_USE_XMLPLUS environment variable. Maybe
the inexplicable part is why I didn't need to do that on Tiger.
Whatever.Use MacPorts to install
links,
p5-libxml-perl,
p5-image-info, and
p5-digest-md5.
[Update 21 Jan 2008: And p5-image-exiftool.]
[Update 24 Jan 2008: Doing this apparently installed /opt/local/bin/perl. Having two perls lead to weirdness. Rename
/opt/local/bin/perl and make it symlink to
/usr/bin/perlDo the perl -MCPAN -e shell shuffle to install
XML::Parser, XML::XPath, and
RPC::XML. CPAN will look for lynx
and ncftp, so you might want to install them with MacPorts
first, but you don't have to.
[Update 24 Jan 2008: And Text::DelimMatch.]
In System Preferences→Sharing
enable
Remote Login. There are probably a bunch of other
things you want to do while you're in the System Preferences: too many to
enumerate.
Bleh. Leopard ships with Apache 2. I guess that's fair, but I still
need to run Apache 1.3.x Luckily, you can install that with MacPorts.Grab the sources for the version of
Apache that you just installed.
Build that version with
the right suexec parameters:./configure \
"--with-layout=Darwin" \
"--sbindir=/opt/local/sbin" \
"--prefix=/opt/local" \
"--enable-suexec" \
"--suexec-caller=_www" \
"--suexec-docroot=/home" \
"--suexec-logfile=/opt/local/var/log/httpd/suexec.log" \
"$@"Note the odd UID “_www”. I have no idea why Leopard sticks underscores
in front of a bunch of users.Move src/support/suexec into
/opt/local/sbin and chmod
it 4555.
Tiger created an “ndw” user and an “ndw” group. Leopard doesn't do that,
it puts you in the “staff” group. That's fine, except you can't run
suexec with the staff group. So go ahead and create yourself
a group:$ dseditgroup -o create -i 501 ndwNow, how do
we get into that group? On
System Preferences→Accounts,
click the lock so you can make changes, then Ctrl+click on the user (yeah,
cause that was intuitive), and change the group.
Restart Apache.
Check the error log to make sure it worked.Install
Adium,
Adobe Reader,
Caffeine,
Carbon Emacs,
Chicken of the VNC,
Disk Inventory,
Firefox,
GIMP,
GoogleEarth,
Growl,
gSync,
HuginOSX,
iMovieHD6,
Inkscape,
iRedLite,
Last.fm,
Lightroom,
MarcoPolo,
MenuCalendarClock,
MenuMeters,
Netbeans,
NeoOffice,
Oxygen,
Quicksilver,
SSHKeychain,
Skim,
SuperDuper!,
VMware Fusion,
X-Chat Aqua, and
Zoom.
I'm skipping Adobe Reader because I've never had
a compelling
need for it. I'm skipping SSHKeychain because
Leopard includes the functionality that I care about (remember to remove
the environment variables, though!). I'm skipping
SuperDuper! because I expect
Time Machine to do the job.I gather that GIMP requires a little
fiddling that I haven't persued yet.Install Firefox extensions: Adblock Plus, cmSiteNavigation Toolbar,
del.icio.us Bookmarks, Download Statusbar, Firebug, Firemacs, Flashblock,
Greasemonkey, Live HTTP Headers, No Squint, Resizeable Form Fields,
ScrapBook, Tab Mix Plus, Web Developer.
[Update 29 Jan 2008: Finder, show me
all my damn files: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON][Update 4 Feb 2008: Use
MacPorts to install gpsbabel, get the USB/Serial port
drivers from .][Update 19 Feb 2008: Remove /home from the
exclusions in
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist because I want /home backed up by
Time Machine.]So far, so good.[Update 31 July 2008: Another rebuild because of
shoddy software.
This time I found a workaround for the inability of
MacPorts to build some stuff
(port clean --work package
and try again; apparently it's a known bug that will be fixed…eventually).
I fixed the Berkeley DB problem by installing python from
and symlinking to that.]